When Spring Attacks
The weather this year has been odd. It’s been cold and windy this week. It also rained in the middle of the night a couple days covering the surrounding hills with snow. Just a few weeks ago we were wearing shorts and enjoying the 70 degree sunny days.
I like Spring. It’s not my favorite time of year but it’s not bad. Spring however hates me. Especially my sinuses.
The other day I was driving home from band practice and my driver’s side window just went down on its own and wouldn’t go back up. I blame it on Spring.
Spring broke my window cause it knows that with the wind blowing in my face until I can get it fixed will cause my allergies to attack.
And they have. Headaches, swollen itchy eyes, swollen glands, coughing, sneezing, and hives.
I took some old allergy medicine yesterday and it helped but I felt like I could fall asleep at my desk at any moment.
A few years ago after 3 sinus infections in a row due to allergies, a doctor recommended I get a humidifier. I have a warm mist humidifier that I keep bedside for when Spring attacks. It helps, a lot. I recommend anyone who has allergy problems to get one.
Now I know I live in a desert and most people have misconceptions that in the desert you shouldn’t have allergy problems. However, with Vegas’ ever growing population over the years came residents who wanted to make the desert not so desert-y and more tropical by planting trees and plants that weren’t native here and over the years all these plants mixed in with the changing climate made Vegas just as much of a allergy sufferers nightmare as California. Here’s an interesting article I read last year about the climate change in the Sun.
